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That Addendum has caused considerable consternation among game developers and — to my knowledge — few are prepared to sign it.

The main points of contention are: - the technology fee (the cost of advertising has already cut badly into their margins in the wake of identifier reform); - the clause making the Addendum also binding on any corporate parents and subsidiaries — the game industry is pretty consolidated and this limits the options for independent game studios which are also subsidiaries;

The fee is particularly nasty for hypercasual games, where a very realistic scenario has you paying for millions of installs, only to find your monetization lacking and you paying additional fees to the platform, of all things.

There are very real concerns with the Addendum and making signing only about Epic’s bona fides is reductive and wrong.